— Lab operations
The half of the lab your LIMS never sees.
Methods get the attention. Then a freezer fails overnight, or an auditor asks for three years of calibration history, and the lab discovers the records live in one person's spreadsheet. I help labs work out what they actually need to monitor and record, and what they can safely ignore.
Where it usually hurts
Monitoring
The freezer that failed at 2 a.m.
Nobody was there. The samples are gone, and so is the record of exactly when the temperature left range. Continuous monitoring answers both, and it answers the auditor.
Equipment
Calibration records in a spreadsheet
It works until someone leaves, or an auditor asks for the history of one balance across three years. Equipment records belong somewhere that survives staff turnover.
Inventory
Reagents nobody can find
Two of something expensive sit expired in a fridge while a third gets ordered. Analysts lose hours a week to a hunt that a stock system removes.
Audit trail
The gap your LIMS cannot see
A LIMS records the approved, digital version of the lab. It does not see the door left open, the sample stored in the wrong state, or the workaround nobody logged. That gap is where findings live.
How I help
Work out what you need before anyone sells you a platform.
Most labs are sold more system than they need, or they buy the cheapest sensor and find out at the audit that it records nothing defensible. The useful work happens before the purchase: deciding which equipment genuinely needs continuous monitoring, what your quality system already obliges you to keep, who has to be woken up when a limit is breached, and what an auditor will ask you to produce.
I have worked in pharma, CRO, environmental, and natural-product labs for 14 years, on the receiving end of these systems. I know which parts get used after month three and which get quietly abandoned.
Where I stand
I am an independent consultant. I also represent a lab-operations platform as a channel partner in Canada, so if we get to the point of choosing a system I will tell you plainly where I have a commercial interest and where I do not. You should know that before you take my advice, not after.
If the right answer for your lab is a competing product, or a clipboard and a calendar reminder, I will say so.
Also
Most of my work is method development, troubleshooting, and validation, plus hands-on HPLC and LC-MS training for analysts. If that is what you came for, the lab services page covers it.